U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the government agency that processes visas, green cards and citizenship applications, claims it’s going broke. USCIS officials are threatening to furlough some 13,400 employees as early as August 30, after initially planning the measure for August 3. The furloughs would add to what was already a huge backlog in application processing, creating a disaster for tens of thousands of immigrant applicants. As many as 126,000 people already approved for citizenship may not be naturalized in time to register for the November elections…. | more…

Disha Karnad Jani, writer and historian from Markham, Ontario and host of In Theory, “Journal of the History of Ideas Blog,” talks with author Gerald Horne about the long century depicted in his latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century | more…

Gerald Horne, author of several books, including, most recently, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talks to Wilmer Leon and Garland Nixon, hosts of The Critical Hour on Sputnik, about U.S. / China relations. Listen, below, or at The Critical Hour… | more…

Utrice Leid, host of Leid Stories broadcast on the Progressive Radio Network talks to author and pundit Gerald Horne about his latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse and burgeoning global hot spots, beginning with the nomination of Kamala Harris… | more…

Dr. Gerald Horne, a longtime guest and friend of Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod, has released a new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. The apocalypse makes reference to the time period in which African and Indigenous people were enslaved, tortured and killed by the millions. In his book, Dr. Horne revisits the history of the 1500s, a century often overlooked when it comes to colonial history…. | more…

Norman “Otis” Richmond (aka Jalali) and Malinda Francis (aka Mali Docuvixen), hosts of Diasporic Music, BlackPower 96.3FM Radio, talk with Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and author of dozens of books, most recently, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century… | more…

Hosts Sean Blackman and Jacqueline Luqman are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, to talk about his new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, why the police lynching of George Floyd isn’t a ‘bug’ but a ‘feature’ of a system fundamentally based on settler-colonial violence, and how white supremacy manifests in the bipartisan imperialist aggressions of US foreign policy. | more…

Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report, talks to author and historian Gerald Horne about his latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century | more…

Furnishing the Marxian critique of capitalism with contemporary examples drawn from not only the US experience, but the global condition and struggles of the working-class, Yates provides a compelling argument for why the answer is affirmative. Not only can the working class change the world; it must–‘there really is no choice’. This book puts paid to any suggestion that such sentiments are utopian…. | more…

In December of 1997 I was hired by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to become their first Director of Organizing. At its International Convention in Hawaii in June of that same year the union had decided to dedicate 30% of its revenue to organizing and build out a department…. When we got to the dock in West Seattle, I stepped off the launch, lost my footing and fell halfway into the drink. Great start for an Organizing Director! ¶ Cal Winslow’s important book Radical Seattle reintroduces me to the region through the lens of the history of one of labor’s great moments, the Seattle General Strike of 1919…. | more…

Mimi Rosenberg, host of Equal Rights and Justice, broadcasting from WBAI in New York City, talks with historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, about our need to acquire a detailed understanding of the past in order to comprehend a present–which includes “the oaf in the Oval Office”… | more…

Editor of Monthly Review and one of the main thinkers of the North American ecological left, John Bellamy Foster offers in this monumental book a fascinating genealogy of ecosocialism, via a synthesis of scientific and artistic critiques of capitalism, developed in United Kingdom between the end of the 19th century and the 1960s…. | more…

Listen to Professor Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talk with Marc Abizeid and Erfan Morandi, hosts of the podcast Who Belongs? A Podcast on Othering & Belonging. Professor Horne has written on a spectrum of issues and events including the early settler colonial period of the US, the Haitian and Mexican revolutions, labor politics, civil rights, profiles of WEB Du Bois and revolutionary artist Paul Robeson, to name just a few. The interview focuses on the uprisings of the 1960s, structural racism, and the transformative currents of today. Listen, below, or at Who Belongs?/SoundCloud | more…